Canterbury Park 2024 Racing Dates Approved by Minnesota Racing Commission
54-day meet will run May 18 through Sept. 28 Canterbury Park’s request for a 54-day 2024 horse racing season, Saturday, May 18 through Saturday, Sept. 28, was unanimously approved today by the Minnesota Racing Commission. Racing will be conducted on Thursdays and Saturdays at 5 p.m. central and Sundays at 1 p.m. Three Wednesdays will […]
Canterbury Park Backstretch Project Moving Right Along
With the unseasonably warm and dry weather in Minnesota, much progress has been made on the $15m backstretch redevelopment and improvement project. Several pieces of the plan came to fruition last spring and summer with the redesign of the training track, installation of main track and paddock area lighting and construction of a 36-room dormitory. […]
Four Retirees Not Soon Forgotten
Over the past decade Canterbury Park racing fans and gamblers have watched and wagered on some of the most popular and richest racehorses in the history of the track. Hold for More, who raced under the care of Francisco Bravo, is on that list. Mr. Jagermeister is as well. His brilliant speed earned hundreds of […]
Canterbury Park Plans for 54 Race Dates in 2024
Meet would run May 18 through Sept. 28; Overnight purses to increase 10 percent Canterbury Park is planning for a 54-day live race meet in 2024. Track officials have submitted a request to the Minnesota Racing Commission for a thoroughbred and quarter horse season that would run from Saturday, May 18 through Saturday, Sept. 28. […]
$15 million backstretch redevelopment continues in preparation for 2024 racing season
Construction of three 108-stall barns underway at Canterbury Park Canterbury Park’s $15 million stable area and racing infrastructure improvement project continued this week with construction work beginning on three new barns that will be home to more than 300 horses in the 2024 racing season. The barn construction project continues a busy off-season of upgrades […]
Zozos ready for Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile
Zozos, owned and bred by Barry and Joni Butzow of Eden Prairie, Minn., will run in the $1m Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 4 at Santa Anita. Angela Hermann visited with Barry to learn more about this dynamic colt.
Horse Racing In Shakopee MN Opens With MN-Bred Influence
A Minnesota bred is the 7 to 2 second choice on the morning line on opening day Friday at Keeneland in the $350,000 Grade 2 Phoenix Stakes at six furlongs. That’s correct. Doctor Oscar, Canterbury Park’s 2023 horse of the meet, is 7 to 2 in a Breeders’ Cup Win And You’re In event. Doctor […]
MN Bred Earning Leader Crosses Finish Line As Winner
When 9-year-old Hot Shot Kid crossed the finish line a winner on Sept. 4 in the eighth race at Canterbury Park, he became the all-time Minnesota bred earnings leader. In a career that began in 2016, Hot Shot Kid raced 54 times, winning 17 for trainer Mac Robertson while earning $708,816. Ten of those victories […]
Trainers Depart To Shakopee As Horse Racing Season Ends
The 2023 Canterbury Park meet came to an end Saturday night. There were just over 700 horses on grounds last week with vans leaving daily. The exodus continued in earnest on Sunday and by week’s end the once-bustling backstretch will be a relative ghost town until next spring. Some horses will be turned out and […]
Canterbury Park Horse Racing Season Ends With Cancellations
Doctor Oscar voted Horse of the Meet The final program of Canterbury Park’s 53-day season ended abruptly after the running of the third race when jockeys deemed both racing surfaces, dirt and turf, unsafe. Rain in the Shakopee area over the preceding 24 hours soaked the main and turf tracks. The riders originally refused […]